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	(Sponsor this newsletter) SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasts off from California By Irene Klotz VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, California (Reuters) - An unmanned Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from California on Sunday to test upgrades before commercial satellite launch services begin later this year. The 22-story rocket, built and flown by Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, soared off a newly refurbished, leased launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Station at noon (1600 GMT). The Falcon 9 blazed through clear blue skies out over the Pacific Ocean, its water vapor trail visible even as the rocket left the atmosphere. "It went better than expected. ... Read More » Vitamin D and Your Health: It's Not a 'Cure All' Growing up in sunny California, I never thought much about the so-called "sunshine vitamin." I wasn't one to sit on the beach tanning, but I did play just about every outdoor sport imaginable. That's why it came as such as shock that I was deficient in this important vitamin. Read More » Vaccine Refusal Contributes to Whooping Cough Outbreaks The 2010 whooping cough outbreak in California may have been fueled, at least in part, by clusters of parents who refused to vaccinate their children, a new study suggests. Read More » Drop in Preschoolers Taking Mental Health Meds Despite growing concerns in recent years over the percentage of children receiving medications for mental health problems, a new study finds that the rate of prescriptions in very young children seems to have stabilized late in the decade of the 2000s, after its peak in 2004. Read More » 3D Map of Milky Way Galaxy Reveals Peanut-Shaped Core (Video) The best 3D map yet of the center of the Milky Way galaxy has revealed a tasty surprise: the heart of our galaxy looks like a cosmic peanut. Read More » China Invites Foreign Astronauts to Fly On Future Space Station Chinese space officials are rolling out a welcome mat to other nations eager to gain access to their future space station. Read More » Earthquake Detection: Smartphone Tech Could Improve Response Small sensors found in most smartphones and laptops are sensitive enough to detect the movement of moderate and large earthquakes, and could vastly expand the information gathered during seismic events in densely populated cities, new research suggests. Read More » Crowdfunding: What's in It for Scientists? Crowdfunding: What's in It for Scientists? Read More » NASA Asteroid-Capture Mission Workshop Today: How to Watch Live NASA is holding a public workshop on its bold asteroid-capture mission today through Wednesday (Sept. 30 to Oct. 2), and you can watch the proceedings live online. Read More » Private Space Race: 2 Commercial Spaceships Now Available for Space Station Deliveries Two private American companies are now responsible for hauling cargo to the International Space Station. Read More » "The Smile of a Dolphin," Banned in Texas (Op-Ed) Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Read More » NASA Interactive Reveals New Earth Perspectives (Op-Ed) Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Read More » The Oil & Gas Industry's Fractured Fairy Tales (Op-Ed) Huffington Post Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights Read More » Michael Mann: Climate-Change Deniers Must Stop Distorting the Evidence (Op-Ed) "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Scientific Assessment ReportLiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Read More » What is Known, and Unknown, About Parkinson's Disease? (Op-Ed) Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Read More » How Children in Vietnam May Prevent the Rhino's Extinction (Op-Ed) Teresa Telecky, director of wildlife for Humane Society International (HSI), is an expert on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species and serves as the executive director and vice president of the Species Survival Network. She contributed this article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Read More » Cat Overpopulation Spawning Novel Rescue Approach (Op-Ed) Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Read More » Fusion Experiments Inch Closer To Break-Even Goal Fusion energy has proven an elusive goal — a running joke is that humanity is 20 years away from a practical power plant, and has been for 60 years. Read More »
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	(Sponsor this newsletter) Private Cygnus Spacecraft Makes Historic 1st Rendezvous with Space Station A new commercial spacecraft built to haul cargo to the International Space Station for NASA made its debut delivery to the orbiting lab early Sunday (Sept. 29), capping a major test flight for its builder Orbital Sciences Corp., which described the space rendezvous as "epic." Read More » SpaceX Launching Next-Generation Private Rocket Test Flight Today: Watch Live The private spaceflight company SpaceX is counting down to launch its first rocket from California today (Sept. 29) in what will be the debut flight of the firm's upgraded Falcon 9 rocket, and you can watch the liftoff live online.   Read More » Sonar Blamed for Mass Stranding of Melon-Headed Whales Four years ago, about 100 melon-headed whales mysteriously entered a shallow lagoon system in northwest Madagascar and became stranded. Now scientists say the creatures' demise was likely brought on by sonar used to map the ocean floor for ExxonMobil. Read More » Commercial cargo ship reaches International Space Station By Irene Klotz (Reuters) - An unmanned U.S. commercial cargo ship flew itself to the International Space Station on Sunday, completing the primary goal of its debut test flight before supply runs begin in December. After a series of successful steering maneuvers, the Orbital Sciences Cygnus freighter parked about 39 feet from the station at 6:50 a.m. EDT/1050 GMT as the ships sailed 260 miles above the Southern Ocean south of Africa. ... Read More » SpaceX Falcon 9 blasts off from California By Irene Klotz VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, California (Reuters) - An unmanned Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from California on Sunday to test upgrades needed for planned commercial launch services. The 22-story rocket, built and flown by Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, soared off a newly refurbished, leased launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Station at noon EDT/1600 GMT. The Falcon 9 blazed through clear blue skies out over the Pacific Ocean, aiming toward an orbit that flies over Earth's poles. ... Read More »
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	(Sponsor this newsletter) Comet ISON In Sight! Amateur Astronomers Spot Potential 'Comet of the Century' The potential "comet of the century" Comet ISON could either become a shining visual treat or a fizzled out chunk of rock and ice when it makes its close pass of the sun, but which will it be? Read More » Jupiter and the Moon Shine Together Early Saturday: Where to Look If your pre-dawn sky is clear early Saturday (Sept. 28), you'll be treated to a lovely celestial scene as a fat, waning crescent moon will appear to pass close by the largest planet in our solar system: Jupiter. Read More » SpaceX ready to test-fly new Falcon rocket By Irene Klotz LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Privately owned Space Exploration Technologies plans to test an upgraded Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday from a site in California as part of its push into the satellite launch market. Previous versions of the Falcon 9 have flown five times from the company's launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. If the new rocket's debut goes well, SpaceX plans to return to Florida for the Falcon 9's first commercial mission, an SES World Skies communications satellite, later this year. ... Read More » How a Potential Government Shutdown Could Affect NASA A government shutdown on Tuesday (Oct. 1) would force NASA to cease most of its operations and furlough the vast majority of its workforce, space agency officials say. Read More » Scientists more convinced mankind is main cause of warming By Alister Doyle and Simon Johnson STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Leading climate scientists said on Friday they were more convinced than ever that humans are the main culprits for global warming, and predicted the impact from greenhouse gas emissions could linger for centuries. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said in a report that a hiatus in warming this century, when temperatures have risen more slowly despite growing emissions, was a natural variation that would not last. ... Read More » Europe should shift focus to bowel cancer screening to save lives: scientists By Kate Kelland AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - European governments should divert funds to routine bowel cancer tests from less effective breast and prostate screening programs, scientists said on Saturday, presenting what they called "irrefutable" evidence that bowel screening saves lives. Many governments devote significant funds to breast cancer screening, but studies in recent years have found that routine breast mammograms can also lead to so-called "over-diagnosis" when tests pick up tumors that would not have caused a problem. ... Read More » Monsters of the Night Sky: Strange Constellations to See This Fall As the constellations of summer depart from our sky, they are replaced by what are often called "the watery constellations." These include normal sea creatures like fishes and dolphins, and even Aquarius carrying a water jug. Read More » New Climate Report More Confident About Alarming Changes The latest landmark climate change report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was released today (Sept. 27), and it states the most certainty to date of humanity's role in causing global warming and climate change. Read More » IPCC Climate Change Report: Experts React Scientists and other experts all over the world are reacting today (Sept. 27) to the report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stating that scientists are more certain than ever of the link between human activities and global warming. Read More » IPCC Report: Strongest Case Yet for Human-Caused Global Warming The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest report on the science of global warming squarely blames humans as the primary cause of climate change, saying it is "extremely likely" that human activities have caused most of the warming of the planet's surface that has occurred since the 1950s. Read More » SpaceX to Launch Space Weather Satellite for Canada Sunday A new space-weather satellite could help better protect Earth's infrastructure from damaging solar storms, officials from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) say. Read More » Biology in the Big Apple: Surveying the Wildlife of Central Park Biology in the Big Apple: Surveying the Wildlife of Central Park Read More »
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